Cold hearts don't bleed. Still they pray for eternity, never seeing tomorrow.

I'm married, I have three children, I never hit my wife.

People genuinely happy in their choices seem less often tempted to force them on other people than those who feel martyred and broken by their lives.

Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

Broke with nothing to live for and damn ready to die young. I'm the shadow behind the gun, look what I've become.

As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.

I feel like unforgiveness, bitterness and resentment, it blocks the flows of God's blessings in life.

Lazy people tend not to take chances, but express themselves by tearing down other's work.

Don't hang out in your old neighborhood with your new cars and flash it to guys who don't have that. The only thing you're doing is making 'em hate.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

Every artist seems to me to have the job of bearing witness to the world we live in. To some extent I think of all of us as artists, because we have voices and we are each of us unique.

The greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

Through pictures, we cut reality in pieces. We selected only the choicest moments, discarding the rest as if they'd never happened.

Secrets upon secrets were weaving into a strange and mysterious fabric that would ultimately clothe his future.

O God... make me a child again, even before I die; give me back the simple faith, the clear vision of the child that holds its father's hand.

History is almost always written by the victors and conquerors and gives their view. Or, at any rate, the victors' version is given prominence and holds the field.

I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.

All information is good, even when it is bad.

What gives me the most hope every day is God's grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.